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These solutions where found in the forums at ubuntuforums and pinoygeek. It took some time to find the answers, but I now have perfectly functional copy & paste buttons on my trackball. Note: You may have to do this each time you customize the buttons. If you have problems, try running through "Detect mouse & buttons" again to make sure they were set correctly. Btnx will still know you are pressing the buttons, so the remap will still work. Xinput set-button-map "Your mouse name" 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 0 0 Once you have found this information, you can disable the extra button functionality with the following line: If the name appears twice, then you need to use the "id" number in place of the name. You should see your pointing device listed. Once installed, you need to use it to list and show devices: It should come with Ubuntu and other types of Linux, but it can be installed from the terminal: The program will let you swap or disable mouse buttons, among other things. In tests, while the remapping worked, a curious side effect evolved: the buttons now work as both copy & paste and forward & back. For clarification and program details, use the man pages from the Wayback Machine. Note: The homepage and the help files were not available.
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